A short phoneme spotter for Phase 5 teaching/consolidation of the /er/ /ir/ /ur/ GPCs.

A wordmat designed to mirror the VCOP board. VCOP superhero images thanks to ilovemarmite and butterbeer.

A PowerPoint designed to show partitioning of a 2-digit number for subtraction. Initially subtracting 10 on a hundred square, then subtracting 20, and then tens and units.

A Y1 phonics screening practice activity to draw the sound buttons and then read real and 'alien' pseudo words for the /igh/ family plus a powerpoint to read the words as a whole class

A word mat designed to support writing about the moon landing. Sectioned in to Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Also contains the two common phrases broadcast and VCOP superheroes (thanks to Butterbeer and ilovemarmite)

Designed to be used with magnetic letters, drywipe pens or letters on bottle tops to segment the /oi/ words: coin, soil, coil, oil, point, boil, oink, noise

Developmental milestones for: Sight Hearing Grasping

Rhyming number bond to 10 posters featuring elements of Easter and the easter story.

Simple chromatography experiment to see who wrote a message in pen on some paper. Children to use felt pens on paper in water, to watch the inks separate. Great idea to introduce reverse colour mixing in EYs or colour separation in Science.

Independent/adult-assisted research activity (I used as a week's homework) to use a non-fiction text or internet to research a dinosaur. Using a non-fiction text to locate and use contents page, page numbers and information

Further information required based on PowerPoint SEN or EAL. Based on training notes provided by LA.

A mindmap of ideas for cross curricular teaching of Jack and the Beanstalk and Spring for the Early Years.

Variety of writing resources to aid Literacy teaching. Letter of apology to the 3 bears, a worksheet with 3 boxes for illustrating the beginning, middle & end of the story, differentiated with lines for the more able to write sentences, and sentences prefilled for less able. Goldilocks dictionary sheets, to encourage alphabetical order, and for children to use when writing the story or sentences.

A variety of different buildings made from differing shapes. To be used as a Maths display looking at 2D/3D shapes in the environment

A writing frame/book for researching and writing about a country. Includes space for illustrations/sticking in pictures and space to write basic information on the country (currency, continent, capital city, language spoken)

Introduction to the control buttons on cassette/video/DVD recorders. Play, record, stop, pause, fast forward and rewind. Used in conjunction with a real CD player to understand what the buttons do

F2 Reception medium term plan on Special Books. Linked to Leicester City SACRE RE unit, but encompasses RE, PSED, CL, UW

Simple 4x4 grids with columns labelled A to D and rows labelled 1 to 4. Images of superheroes, 2D shapes, dinosaurs and Mickey Mouse characters to find the grid co-ordinates for. Children to remember to write the x-axis first and then the y-axis. The first two grids are very simple with 4 image co-ordinates to record, the next two have either 6 or 9 co-ordinates to record.

A homework idea, life cycle of the Phoenix, and a Phoenix myth dictionary. All to support the Hamilton Y1 Literacy plan on Narrative. Please also see my Ppt file on the legend of the Phoenix story to help introduce the concept.

Introduction to space topic and letter writing. Letter format for studying how a letter is written. Encouraging independent letter writing from an imaginery setting.